A Quote by John Gay

Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another.

John Gay

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Another Author Brother Envy Ever Pay Sharper Spur Than Wits

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John Gay
English - Poet
June 30, 1685 - December 4, 1732

Envy's a sharper spur than pay.

John Gay

No author ever spar'd a brother.

John Gay

perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.

Hortense Calisher

God has given to man no sharper spur to victory than contempt of death.

Hannibal

When we spar, we spar right-handers, we spar left-handers. We spar everybody.

Demetrius Andrade

I think the average Jew is probably sharper intellectually than the average gentile, because for years and years he's had to live by his wits. Consequently, there has evolved a race of Jews who are more agile mentally than the rest of us.

George Lincoln Rockwell

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Eden Phillpotts

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Bertrand Russell

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author?

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

A man may be sharper than another, but not than all others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Usually, I spar with dudes. When I spar with girls, I worry about how they're feeling, what they're thinking. I care.

Cat Zingano

Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?" Malvolio: "Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused. I am as well in my wits, fool, as thou art." Feste: "But as well? Then you are mad indeed, if you be no better in you wits than a fool.

William Shakespeare

Nothing is more subtly destructive than a closed circle of artists feeding on one another. Envy grows from insignificant differences between people, not from overwhelming inequalities... it was envy that forced them to emulate each other, not esteem.

Alexander Theroux

If you don't put 99 percent of yourself into the writing, there will be no publishing career. There's the writer and there's the author. The author - you don't ever think about the author. Just think about the writer. So my advice would be, find a way to not care - easier said than done.